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New comment by dashtiarian in "How getting richer made teenagers less free"

dashtiarian — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 08:13:01 +0000

I was raised in such a house. This happened because my mother was an underachiever, and also because my father and grandparents were dead so she was unchallenged doing this.

But you are alive my friend. Don't let your child still have nightmares, regrets, and feelings of constantly not being enough in their 30s. If your child does'nt have a childhood she can never become an adult.

New comment by dashtiarian in "How sober should a writer be?"

dashtiarian — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 06:56:20 +0000

You are absolutely right. But those of us who live in 3rd world dictatorships are here for the fun time, not the long time. The more we live the more we experience corruption, inflation, infrastructure failure, war, water shortages, etc... Hard to do anything productive sober.

New comment by dashtiarian in "How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters"

dashtiarian — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 09:02:48 +0000

While Persian has only two diphtongs and 6-8 vowels, Other Languages of Iran are full of them(e.g. Southern Kurdish speakers can pronounce 12+1 vowels and 11 diphtongs). I find it funny if all Iranians are speaking English with the Persian accent.

New comment by dashtiarian in "Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube"

dashtiarian — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 05:11:40 +0000

I don't know how much you and I both care about this, and arranging the evidense is going to take some time. Specially since I don't know if I'm going to live in a warzone or not starting tomorrow. Sorry.

New comment by dashtiarian in "Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube"

dashtiarian — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:45:53 +0000

It used to be called Persian in English, the media changed it to Farsi to reduce it's "prestige". If you knew English and you are old enough you even remember the shift (1990s–2000s).

New comment by dashtiarian in "Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube"

dashtiarian — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:30:39 +0000

Because it has nothing to do with Arabic. /p/ in Persian is aspirated, and in some words, like aspirated /p/ in some other languages (e.g. Greek), it has turned into /f/; Ever wondered why ph is pronounced /f/? In Persian this is called "softening" (Narm şodegi).

New comment by dashtiarian in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

dashtiarian — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 01:06:19 +0000

So people from countries US has sanctioned can't even develop and use mobile apps anymore. This will change millions of innocent lives. So unfair and racist. The reason my people are in this mess in the first place is a US coup.

New comment by dashtiarian in "Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling"

dashtiarian — Sun, 18 May 2025 02:44:56 +0000

If you are a .NET shop, .NET core still has a better Linux than Legacy .NET framework hence the migration.

If you are a Java shop everything just works so why touch it?

New comment by dashtiarian in "Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling"

dashtiarian — Sat, 17 May 2025 05:12:35 +0000

Well to be fair, if you wanted Performance, Linux support, and a framework which was built with dependency injection and async support in mind and not just have them as patched in footguns, you had to migrate to .NET Core. A Java 8 Spring app was just good enough.

New comment by dashtiarian in "Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs"

dashtiarian — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 16:48:00 +0000

It actually feels nice to see US people having a taste of the kind of government their intelligence service force other nations to have by coups, except that it does not feel nice at all. I'm sorry guys.

New comment by dashtiarian in "What made the Irish famine so deadly"

dashtiarian — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 07:40:31 +0000

Or Persian famine of 1917–1919, or Iranian famine of 1942–1943. Both of which the west downplays.

New comment by dashtiarian in "U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine"

dashtiarian — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:17:42 +0000

The reason people are living paycheck to paycheck is not because of military aids, the system is not going to spend saved money on people, and people will be the ones fighting the incoming wars.

You need unions and Universal Healthcare like the rest of the developed world to fix those problems.

New comment by dashtiarian in "The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three"

dashtiarian — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 22:41:28 +0000

Shift add used to execute much faster than multiplication in 8088 days and people would use it when they had to multiply an int by a known scalar (shift took 4 clocks and add took 12).

New comment by dashtiarian in "US Senate to Revive Software Patents with PERA Bill Vote on Thursday"

dashtiarian — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:51:58 +0000

Buckle up for the next 4 years brother.

New comment by dashtiarian in "Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math"

dashtiarian — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 07:21:19 +0000

Haha in my country half the computer science degrees are titled "Applied Mathematics".

New comment by dashtiarian in "Robot dentist performs first human procedure"

dashtiarian — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 15:50:21 +0000

Haha, as a 3rd worlder; I'd much rather take my chances with a robot dentist than a dentist who's father has ties with the ruling class, who's father has bought their university sit, or who's father (allegedly) being a veteran of a war that was finished 34 years ago has gotten them a university sit.

New comment by dashtiarian in "Alzheimer's Risk Is Strongly Shaped by Your Mother's Side, Study Finds"

dashtiarian — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 01:47:33 +0000

At least in the circles I've been in, even bringing up the discussion of paternal uncertainty gets you "academically canceled" xD.

New comment by dashtiarian in "Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work (2021)"

dashtiarian — Thu, 16 May 2024 13:30:15 +0000

I don't know why I have to commute 90 minutes just to open AWS consoles, terminal tabs, Microsoft teams and Outlook. Then any communication I have with my team members and leaders must be written before I can do anything anyways.

Do I just have to sacrifice 5% of my lifetime to corporate gods? Because I gladly sacrifice more, and there is an opportunity to negotiate for better mutual terms.

New comment by dashtiarian in "China Added More Solar Panels in 2023 Than US Did in Its Entire History"

dashtiarian — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:04:59 +0000

What I read is "We need to eliminate one party to start investing more in clean energy."

New comment by dashtiarian in "Apple hiring compiler developers for improving Swift / C++ interoperability"

dashtiarian — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 13:01:08 +0000

For a start you should, you should buy the latest version of the Dragon Book and then put it on the shelf.

Then you should get a copy of Modern Compiler implementation in ML. I love the Crafting Interpreters book, and also the Writing A Compiler In Go book; but they will not satisfy any person with undergraduate CS education.